Anybody using Network Attached Storage (NAS)?

[team56th]

So I bought a new PC. It's great. Runs hardware-taxing games so well, everything is snappy, boot speed is crazy, etc.

Problem is, I have already filled more than 70% of my 1TB hard drive. A few games and torrents, and it's just so easy to fill up the hard disk.
I thought of buying a new 2TB one, but now I am hearing about all these recent talks about how great NASs are. They serve as a small, personal server that can be connected to both your PC and smartphones via router, can be used as a DLNA server, some products support BitTorrent download, etc.
Other than expensive price it all sounds great and all, but I want to hear actual hands-on experience of products. If anybody is using one, please tell for what and how you are using it.

 

[BearHuntr]

I just started playing around with Xpenology installed on an HP N54L Microserver with about 5 TB of disk and so far, I'm pretty impressed. Xpenology is basically the same software as a typical Synology NAS, but you can install it as a VM or on your own custom hardware. I haven't used it extensively yet, but it is very versatile. You could just buy a Synology NAS if you don't want to deal with a custom build and its various headaches, but I like that I can use my existing hardware and/or put it on VMware ESXi.

 

[Videodrome]

Do you still have an old PC? There are so many potential uses for it. It could conceivably be made into a NAS or a kind of FTP Server.

During my college Internship I made an old Dell into a NAS using the FreeNAS operating system.

http://www.freenas.org/

 

[team56th]

Do you still have an old PC? There are so many potential uses for it. It could conceivably be made into a NAS or a kind of FTP Server.

During my college Internship I made an old Dell into a NAS using the FreeNAS operating system.

http://www.freenas.org/

Don't have one, but I must say this sounds very interesting.